TLOU Grounded DLC includes new difficulty mode. Screens from ps4?

‘Completed Grounded Mode’ might be one of the most difficult trophies you’ll ever earn”

We’re pleased to announce the third and final drop in The Last of Us season pass. Here’s a look at what’s in the Grounded Bundle.
New trophies and a mix of single player and multiplayer content await you in this DLC drop. Grounded Mode will be the hardest challenge you’ll ever face as you try to complete the single player campaign of The Last of Us. The AI is relentless, smart and brutal – survival will be near impossible. “Completed Grounded Mode” might be one of the most difficult trophies you’ll ever earn.
The Reclaimed Territories Map Pack features four news maps: Wharf, Capitol, Coal Mine, and Water Tower. Each map has a mix of trophies attached and is set in location that will be familiar yet unfamiliar to players of the single player campaign. Intelligent use of climbing, stealth, flanking, and all your clan survival techniques will be essential to master these maps.
“Completed Grounded Mode’ might be one of the most difficult trophies you’ll ever earn.”

Wharf

Set in the rusted-out docks where Joel encountered Robert, the Wharf map features close quarters gameplay, two snipers nests, and a giant boat. It’s full of good opportunities for climbing, flanking and stealth.

Capitol

Set in Boston, the Capitol Map features indoor and outdoor gameplay. It encourages the intelligent use of flanking.

Coal Mine

Set in Colorado, Coal Mine is a winter map that is spotted with abandoned buildings. It’s a spacious map that has long lines of sight and a bridge that’s a perfect perch for snipers. The dynamic snowstorm obscures the view so be on your toes.

Water Tower

Set in Lincoln, PA, the Water Tower map features two primary chokepoints for some deadly face-to-face confrontations. It’s mainly an outdoor map with a few indoor areas and some very unique lighting. It might seem open but it’s really a tight map that’s perfect for close quarters melee.

New guns and new survival skills are coming as part of the Grounded Bundle as well. All new guns and skills are available to try before you buy as part of new pre-set load outs. The Survivalist Weapon Bundle contains four new weapons: Specter, Double Barrel, Enforcer, and Launcher. These guns have very unique attributes that have been carefully balanced so as to offer new play styles that fit into the existing Factions gameplay.

Survivalist Weapon Bundle

Need more firepower? This is your bundle. The Survivalist Weapon bundle includes the Specter, Double Barrel, Enforcer, and Launcher. PSN purchase unlocks this gun for use in your Custom Loadout. Equip in the Purchasable loadout slot, then use in-game parts to buy it during the match.

Specter

A silenced assault rifle that’s great if your style is stealth stalker. PSN purchase unlocks this gun for use in your Custom Loadout. Equip in the Purchasable loadout slot, then use in-game parts to buy it during the match.

Double Barrel

Classic, deadly, double-barrel shotgun. Only 1 loadout point. PSN purchase unlocks this gun for use in your Custom Loadout. Equip in the Purchasable loadout slot, then use in-game parts to buy it during the match.

Enforcer

Highly accurate pistol but will cost you an extra loadout point.

Launcher

A weapon that fires small explosives, in the vein of a home-made potato gun. PSN purchase unlocks this gun for use in your Custom Loadout. Equip in the Purchasable loadout slot, then use in-game parts to buy it during the match.

Two Survival Skills Bundles, Situational Survival Skills Bundle and Professional Survival Skills Bundle, are also included if you own the season pass. These skills are very effective ways to find your new favorite play style.

Situational Survival Skills Bundle

Unlock four survival skills that will help you get the best of any situation. This bundle includes Agility, Awareness, Fortitude, and Scavenger.

Agility

Climb, vault, and move while crouching faster than you could before. At level 3 you are nearly impossible to hear while moving.

Awareness

See enemy nametags before they see yours and enemy nametags remain on screen for several seconds when taking fire.

Fortitude

Downed? Level up this skill and it will help you survive longer as you’ll take longer to bleed out, crawl faster, and have more health when downed. At higher levels you’ll start with an extra health pack, and earn extra parts each time you heal.

Scavenger

Automatically pick up ammo and supplies and see increases in drops from enemies with this valuable skill. At level 3 enemies sometimes drop a random crafting ingredient.

Professional Survival Skills Bundle

Unlock four survival skills that will make you even more deadly. This bundle includes Gunslinger, Bomb Expert, Executioner, and Damage Marker.

Gunslinger

Equip this skill to start each spawn with more pistol ammo as you level up the skill.

Bomb Expert

Your bombs will explode more quickly and you’ll be immune to the stun of your own smoke bomb as you level up this skill.

Executioner

If your play style is the higher the risk, the greater the reward then this is the skill you want. Earn more parts for shiv kills and special executions, and get extra shiv uses every time you craft a shiv.

Damage Marker

Good at hitting your targets? This is the skill for you as you’ll automatically mark any enemies you hit and earn double the parts for making.

Finally everyone, non-season pass holders included, will be getting a new gun – the Full-Auto Rifle – for free. This is a fully automatic, modified burst rifle that is very easy to use. It’s the perfect weapon for people who are new to Factions and experts alike.
While it’s been very cool to tell you about all this fresh content nothing beats showing you. To that end we’ll be live-streaming for the first time ever this coming Friday, 18th April over on the Naughty Dog Twitch channel. We’ll be showing off some of the new Grounded Bundle content so tune in at 8.00pm BST on 18th April to see new DLC in action.
Additionally, we’ll be doing some live-streaming on Twitch of our participation in Operation Supply Drop’s 8-Bit Salute on 17th May. Head over to learn more about the event at Team Naughty Dog’s fundraising page today.
If you haven’t purchased a season pass for The Last of Us yet you’re missing out. With our final pack, this Grounded Bundle, as well as the Abandoned Territories, the Left Behind, and the multiplayer head items drops all included, you’ll be getting savings of over 80% versus purchasing all the content individually. The season pass will be available for four more weeks. After the week of 13th May, when the PlayStation Store updates in your region, the season pass will no longer be available. Get the most out of The Last of Us while you still can.

Think so? At first I thought ps3 as well, but the lines are too precise. They appear to be mp screens though, and I didn't spend much time in mp on ps3. So I'm mentally comparing it to what I remember the sp gfx looking like.

Survivor was more intense in my opinion than hard. Especially if you were like me and played on a difficulty that had you pretty much always using the daredevil hearing ability. After a full playthrough using that, suddenly taking it away from me made for a way more intense experience.

Having already beaten the game. I'm most likely going to do my first ps4 playthrough on grounded difficulty.

Survivor was more intense in my opinion than hard. Especially if you were like me and played on a difficulty that had you pretty much always using the daredevil hearing ability. After a full playthrough using that, suddenly taking it away from me made for a way more intense experience.

Having already beaten the game. I'm most likely going to do my first ps4 playthrough on grounded difficulty.

To me it was the same just with less supplies no hearing ability and a slight increase in A.I. iq. Or I was better at it than I thought I was.

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